beat Nashotah House ($2,400), Alverno College ($3,000), Northland College ($3,150), and U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ($3,192), and others, ending with Marquette ($6,700).

42 out of the other 71 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., U of Phoenix-Madison Campus.

1. The costs of room and board are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Cardinal Stritch Univ is in Milwaukee, WI, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in business, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (821st place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($53,832)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,330)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,330)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,835)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,640)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,674)
• cost of a shared room ($1,900)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• in-state freshmen (80.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (69.4%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (67.6%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• undergrads among full-time students (60.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (52%)
• minorities (21.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.7%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (21.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (387)
• first-year applicants (957)
• foreign students (105)
• full-time grad students (1,359)
• full-time undergrads (2,352)
• grad students (1,815)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,799)
• yearly for-credit students (9,444)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (217 meters)

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